2 Bormans 10 feet apart in hot Georgia

**Atlantahunter** · Oct 24, 2009, 11:23 PM

At last after almost 5 years of relic hunting, one of my relic hunting buddies and I uncovered 2 Borman balls within 10 feet of each other over 2 successive Saturdays. I had been finding many shell fragments but not the whole shell or ball. Dan found the first one about 17 inches down in very hard Georgia baked clay. I had gotten the permission of a homeowner near the Kolb farmhouse in Marietta, Georgia to hunt his property. We had been hunting for several hours and the heat became quite oppressive. Another buddy of mine had to leave and as he was leaving I noticed Dan taking a lot of time with a signal and digging the hole. He was taking an extremely long time digging his hole so I went to the side lot and found several bullets and a shell frag. As I was getting up from the ground over an unproductive signal, Dan was heading my way with one of those faces that tell you he had something exciting to show me. Of course his hand was behind his back, but I knew he had something nice. Then he pulled his hand to his front with a solid round Borman. I was jealous but happy he had found it. Unfortunately, as I do with any homeowner that gives me permission to hunt their property, they are given the opportunity to keep what we find. The homeowner did want the ball and Dan took it home to clean in a hydrolysis bath. The following Saturday we went back to give the homeowner the ball and to continue hunting the property. After several hours, I picked up a signal about 10 feet away from where Dan found his ball. I was using a Whites MXT and the signal was jumping all over the spectrum and I asked my other buddies to run their detectors over the signal. All encouraged me to dig it. As I dug down I felt the crest of either a water pipe or a ball. The ground was very hard and after chipping away the ground another Borman surfaced. This ball seemed to be just another solid ball but once it broke away from the ground, I rolled it over to see a perfect Borman fuse with little damage. Each timing mark was easily identifiable. Fortunately for me the homeowner decided to let me keep it and I had Barry Banks in Marietta, Ga disarm it. This particular property produced many shell frags, drops, fireds and a button.